Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cranally, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cranally
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80386, -7.56242
- SMR number
- LF010-006----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an ENE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 42.2m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 8m; H 0.8-2.1m) with a wide, deep, intervening fosse (Wth 7.5m; D 1.5m). A very low outer bank (Wth 5.2m; H 0.1-0.35m) is evident from E-SE-S. From WSW-N-NNE the fosse has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary and from NNE-NE-E it is largely infilled. A break (Wth 2.6m) in the bank at ENE with an accompanying causeway marks the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.